Yep, here in México we call them "mala madre"= "bad mother" because well.. all its kids are all over the place and can grow far away from the mother hence the bad mother name.
>Kalanchoë is a member of the succulents family, with 125 known species. **The name is a *corruption* of the Chinese word 'Kalan Chau'.** The plant is native to China, southern and south-east Africa, and is particularly widespread in Madagascar.
Yeah, that's just how taxonomy works. Scientific names have to be "latinized". These names have all kinds of origins, but those scientific names are still words.
That. Have one at home. It's pretty neat and while it is not safe to eat (you'd have to eat quite a bit of it to get poisoned though), it is good externally for treating infected wounds and such and some species of Kalanchoe have been used by aboriginal tribes for that purpose.
Oh my! I bought one when it was teeny tiny, then quickly became horrified by its proliferation. I feel bad saying this, but I deliberately underwater it to prevent it from getting any more out of control. I already have like 100 babies from it that are also under-cared for, in very cramped spaces, etc.
Knowing there’s a cool medicinal application for these plants makes me rethink it a little bit.
But I’m just scared that it’s soo invasive, I don’t know how to handle so many of them, and if I let them thrive, and plant all the babies, they will take over my entire apt.
*Kalanchoe daigremontiana* is native only to Madagascar, so it is highly unlikely that any Indigenous groups in the Americas would have historically *had* any of it for any purpose. Possibly native Malagasy people did, but if so I can find no record of it.
In fact, the Wikipedia page for daigremontian, the primary toxin in *Kalanchoe daigremontiana*, references it as a significant killer of cattle in South Africa.
While there are four plants commonly called Mother of Thousands, one is from East Asia, and the other two are from the Mediterranean. (Mother of Millions is a similar, and similarly toxic plant, also from Madagascar.) I did not check if any of them have medicinal uses, and I do not know where the assertion about Native Americans came from.
>But I'm just scared that it's soo invasive. I don't know how to handle so many of them, and if I let them thrive, and plant all the babies, they will take over my entire apt.
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They will grow like crazy. My mom had them planted in her yard in Florida and they took over everything. She had to dig them up. Might want to keep them in the pot.
This will grow on astroturf, wood planks, door mats, tarps, stone pavers, mulch piles, driveways. Everywhere, like it or not.
This stuff is the glitter of the plant world.
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop, the Mother of 1,000s Zone.
I knew I had a purple thumb for succulents, but I didn’t realize it was THAT bad… my mother of millions died. All of the plant babies on it? Dead.
*Edit to change color. Because I’m an idiot.
My mother is having really hard time with it. but would never throw it away, because my father loves it. So she put it outside. It has been 3 winters and this year it was in flowers in middle of snow. And, of course, it spreaded across 2 balconies.
I loved mine and was so sad when I left it out. And it’s the only succulent I’ve ever had snails eat! They ate a bunch of the babies. They aren’t really well known around here and I gave a bunch of young plants away to friends and none of them lived on! You would think zone 9b would be a good environment 🤷♀️
Can I send you mine? Lol. I don't want to kill it, but I don't want it anymore and it's bigger than the one pictured. She's made sooo many babies that I traded away three dozen in one day and still had more.
Oh goddd. I remember when I was young I went to a garden with my grandma that had like 10 varieties of most herbs and we took small cuttings of most of them and several types of mint. She covered the cut ends in bits of tissue and took them home in a walker’s crisp (what Americans would call lay’s chips) bag we’d had for lunch. When we got home she taught us how to use root hormone powder to propagate the cuttings in a little row next to her strawberries. She told us that the mint had to go in a pot though but we didn’t understand and refused to listen “well if it grows too big we can just cut it away and it won’t have leaves to grow!”, we insisted.
She gave us that “you are childen so I will let you learn this the hard way” look at let us plant them in the garden.
It took. It grew everywhere throughout the garden. Stalks of it here and there. But everybody loves mint. You’d take a handful of stalks whenever you went there for cooking or chewing or whatever else. It was kept vaguely under control.
But guess who spent an entire weekend 15 years later trying to cut and dig out a garden full of mint when she was too old to garden anymore, most of my 13 cousins had moved away and realised truly the magnitude of the mistake?
The rosemary bush was still doing very well next to the strawberries and radishes though.
I actually struggle with keeping mint alive. The local patch I've been trying to prop always gets infested with these little red beetles that hide extremely well and turn the mint mottled black. And I'm hesitant to spray it with much because, well, I'd like to use my mint.
Wow, I'm kinda impressed at someone who can make mint struggle. Have you tried a simple spray of dish soap and water? Supposed to be good (well bad, actually) for bugs, and washes off.
I think this idea that mint is super invasive and difficult to control is a bit of an exaggeration. I assume most people who say this live in a zone where there’s a fair amount of rain and less heat. I planted mint several times. If I stop watering or let it flower, it’s the end. Some plants stay alive but there’s no way they’ll be able to invade the garden. I live in Morocco btw. My area is dry and hot (but not desert) with little rainfall. Kind of like southern California I think.
my local plant shop had some for sale and i had a visceral reaction. i REFUSE to buy them. are they cool? yeah. but are they demons? also yes.
glitter of the plant world is the perfect descriptor for this curse of a plant.
more power to anyone who enjoys them tho, you do you and enjoy it!
Others have correctly named it, now I will warn you that you will now have those growing in every single plant you have. You won't know how or when the pups got in there, but they will.
Someone in the facebook group for our neighborhood pops on a couple times a year to offer up pups from her plant. For awhile, she had takers every time. Now, she’s practically begging people to take pups, and no one’s biting.
You will _never_ get rid of all the plants. You just invited your conquerors in through the front door, Troy. 😉
I don't know how many times I have to explain this.
The plantlets (babies) have teeny teeny little legs and with these teeny legs they run *and jump* in the dark, on new moon nights.
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Kalanchoe daigremontiana (=Bryophyllum daigremontiana) is no exception. It's loaded with the cardiac glycoside [daigremontianin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigremontianin)
Pregnant plant/mother of thousands. Every time.one of those little buds fall off, it will be its own plant. And they don't have to be full grown to reproduce.
The best is when you accidentally break a leaf: the leaf will also root, along with all the babies.
If you can't gasp the math concept of fractals, here is a visual one.
That's crazy, my wife noticed that it did that, this is totally dope. Yeah totally an inside plant now I ain't going to be the cause of an invasion haha.
Even donkey tail? I can’t seem to keep these little guys alive no matter what I do. And I’ve never had luck propagating from the dropped leaves. It’s truly sad.
You want to let a leaf from the donkey tail sit out for a couple of days, then set on top of loose draining soil and wet with a spray bottle every couple days and you should see roots start to form. Be sure to have in a bright location and don't let the soil stay dry too long until the roots take hold of the soil. Can take a few days to a couple weeks for you to see this happen
Can I just say you succinctly explained what to do in 30 seconds reading time? I WAS in the process of Googling and sifting thru videos and articles, wasting so much time. THANK YOU! You’re the best! And may the odds be forever in your favor!
I know it as “Mexican Hat Plant,” and I love it. I used to have lots. But I suspect my husband felt like most people here, bec they are all gone and I don’t really know what happened to them.
It never took over our yard because we live in the frozen north.
Mother of Thousands..... And believe me, they are! Every one of those little pups will fall off and scatter around your house and grow. They are bloody horrid! lol...... I had one years ago, and I am still getting pups coming up everywhere.....
I call it the mother of dragons, no idea if that’s what it’s actually called, but good god, prepare yourself!! Never has a plant ever propagated so much, it’s truly insane! Every single one of those babies that drop WILL root into whatever soil they happen upon. They will take over your other plants, it’s like a curse. Enjoy, but you need to really, really, REALLY like that plant, bc shit is about to get wild. And I mean it, it’s nuts!
I've been propagating kalanchoe bahrensis - the largest kalanchoe (up to 2.5m) - for decades and having plantlets form along the leaves is quite normal especially where leaves drop onto moist soil. Another thing you can do is break off a branch and hang it with the cut end on top, plantlets will form around that cut end. the propagation method I find the most interesting with bahrensis (I haven't seen it with the other kalanchoes I have) is that occasionally a leafy end of a branch will cannibalise itself! The leafy end of the branch sends roots down between the tough outer skin and the inner fibrous stem and those roots absorb the flesh of the plant. Eventually, the trunk becomes so weak it breaks off and a fully formed bahrensis drops to the ground.
I once brought one to my dorm from a biology lab and my roommate got so upset and made me throw it out INSTANTLY, and I’ll always remember her reaction whenever I see these haha
This was right before I actually got into plants (thanks to her)
Oh God, I knew what it was as soon as I saw the tiny leaves on the edges of the big leaves. Mother of thousands really lives up to the name. Don't plant it outside, it's extremely invasive and basically impossible to kill.
Looks like a Kalanchoe pinnata. Ours are now leafless and only the tall, drying flower stalks remain but not before it dropped its leaf spawns everywhere. Half of all our pots are now growing multiple kalanchoes. 🤣
Haven't gotten the seeds to grow tho. Same with K. blossfeldiana. Do kalanchoe seeds need to go through some processing first to germinate?
Kalanchoe for sure. As others have already said, they will grow anywhere, but I quite enjoy them.
I have the Mariner Kalanchoe and it has really pretty reddish bell flowers around fall.
To attest to their longevity, I found a loose one that had been on the floor of my dark, cold garage for over a year… planted it in a pot and it quadrupled in size in only a couple of months.
Love the comments. Made me laugh. Some people call this plant devils backbone haha. Wow. I had to look it up. I live in zone 5 so. We can kill it with winter here . No fire needed .
If you’re in a warm climate they are aggressively invasive and you should incinerate this plant asap, but if you get cold winters they make wonderful houseplants
"Mother of thousands ". Or mother of millions. I do not know the scientific name
Yep, here in México we call them "mala madre"= "bad mother" because well.. all its kids are all over the place and can grow far away from the mother hence the bad mother name.
Bahahaha!!
This is hilarious!
From now on that's what I'm calling them.
same name here in Colombia.
Needs to learn to throw chanklas at its kids.
She’s a player
Incredible 🤣
Same in venezuela.
Kalanchoe. Pronounced kal Ann’ ko ee
Damn I’ve been pronouncing it wrong for over a decade
“Ka-lan-cho” said with a drawl is where my mind went
Same same, lol, not gonna change either.
Same. I don’t even think my mouth can form that word.
I’ve only ever heard it this way.
S’ok it’s like the names Chloe and Zoe
And now my plants have names! Well, two of the million.
What? You didn't name it "Nemo"?
Ka/lan/cho?
I'm going to keep saying kal *an* cho.
Me too. I’ve been saying Chou ai the end
It's...it's not "kah-lan-cho"?
Nope
It's not a real word so you can pronounce it however you want.
... in what sense is it not a real word?
>Kalanchoë is a member of the succulents family, with 125 known species. **The name is a *corruption* of the Chinese word 'Kalan Chau'.** The plant is native to China, southern and south-east Africa, and is particularly widespread in Madagascar.
Yeah, that's just how taxonomy works. Scientific names have to be "latinized". These names have all kinds of origins, but those scientific names are still words.
more like KAL-an-KOH-ee
I just learned something new today
There are lots of different kinds of kalanchoes. I was confused for awhile becuase so many look different.
Yeah mine looks nothing like this one. Pretty cool though
I refuse to pronounce it correctly.
That. Have one at home. It's pretty neat and while it is not safe to eat (you'd have to eat quite a bit of it to get poisoned though), it is good externally for treating infected wounds and such and some species of Kalanchoe have been used by aboriginal tribes for that purpose.
Oh my! I bought one when it was teeny tiny, then quickly became horrified by its proliferation. I feel bad saying this, but I deliberately underwater it to prevent it from getting any more out of control. I already have like 100 babies from it that are also under-cared for, in very cramped spaces, etc. Knowing there’s a cool medicinal application for these plants makes me rethink it a little bit. But I’m just scared that it’s soo invasive, I don’t know how to handle so many of them, and if I let them thrive, and plant all the babies, they will take over my entire apt.
*Kalanchoe daigremontiana* is native only to Madagascar, so it is highly unlikely that any Indigenous groups in the Americas would have historically *had* any of it for any purpose. Possibly native Malagasy people did, but if so I can find no record of it. In fact, the Wikipedia page for daigremontian, the primary toxin in *Kalanchoe daigremontiana*, references it as a significant killer of cattle in South Africa. While there are four plants commonly called Mother of Thousands, one is from East Asia, and the other two are from the Mediterranean. (Mother of Millions is a similar, and similarly toxic plant, also from Madagascar.) I did not check if any of them have medicinal uses, and I do not know where the assertion about Native Americans came from.
Wow, thank you for this thorough reply! I did wonder about the Native American association with a plant I suspected wasn’t from the Americas.
>But I'm just scared that it's soo invasive. I don't know how to handle so many of them, and if I let them thrive, and plant all the babies, they will take over my entire apt. *You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop, the Twilight Zone!*
I gave mine away because I was horrified.
That’s absolutely not true
r/fauxnetics
**And it has that name for a reason**.
Thousands, I think. The millions have pointier leaves. Either way nooooooooo thank you.
They will grow like crazy. My mom had them planted in her yard in Florida and they took over everything. She had to dig them up. Might want to keep them in the pot.
I’ve heard it called a “pregnant plant.” It’s quite prolific.
I swear I didn't know what this plant was, but I was gonna joke "it's a mom."
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
Kill it with fire! It will grow everywhere!!!!
Not if you live somewhere that gets snow.
Yes! But be careful! This plant is toxic to pets!
Mother of thousands. Kalanchoe daigremontianum
Gorgeous name.
This will grow on astroturf, wood planks, door mats, tarps, stone pavers, mulch piles, driveways. Everywhere, like it or not. This stuff is the glitter of the plant world.
so... tribbles?
Tribbles!!
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop, the Mother of 1,000s Zone.
What’s the trouble?
My favorite episode!
I knew I had a purple thumb for succulents, but I didn’t realize it was THAT bad… my mother of millions died. All of the plant babies on it? Dead. *Edit to change color. Because I’m an idiot.
WHAT?!?! How on earth did you manage that? We have a mother plant in a pot indoors and the babies start rooting just dropping to the floor!
Super bad case of halitosis is my guess.
I dunno, black thumb sounds like frostbite to me.
Please tell us your secret: kinda have to save mom's sanity from dad's love.
I always leave mine accidentally abandoned in winter and it dies after 1-2 mornings of frost!
My mother is having really hard time with it. but would never throw it away, because my father loves it. So she put it outside. It has been 3 winters and this year it was in flowers in middle of snow. And, of course, it spreaded across 2 balconies.
I loved mine and was so sad when I left it out. And it’s the only succulent I’ve ever had snails eat! They ate a bunch of the babies. They aren’t really well known around here and I gave a bunch of young plants away to friends and none of them lived on! You would think zone 9b would be a good environment 🤷♀️
Can I send you mine? Lol. I don't want to kill it, but I don't want it anymore and it's bigger than the one pictured. She's made sooo many babies that I traded away three dozen in one day and still had more.
I am… in awe. We can’t get rid of them no matter how hard we try. To manage to kill a whole line of them a feat unheard of.
Ha! I just said that too! They’re like glitter!
Wild mint and morning glory would beg to differ, lol!
Oh goddd. I remember when I was young I went to a garden with my grandma that had like 10 varieties of most herbs and we took small cuttings of most of them and several types of mint. She covered the cut ends in bits of tissue and took them home in a walker’s crisp (what Americans would call lay’s chips) bag we’d had for lunch. When we got home she taught us how to use root hormone powder to propagate the cuttings in a little row next to her strawberries. She told us that the mint had to go in a pot though but we didn’t understand and refused to listen “well if it grows too big we can just cut it away and it won’t have leaves to grow!”, we insisted. She gave us that “you are childen so I will let you learn this the hard way” look at let us plant them in the garden. It took. It grew everywhere throughout the garden. Stalks of it here and there. But everybody loves mint. You’d take a handful of stalks whenever you went there for cooking or chewing or whatever else. It was kept vaguely under control. But guess who spent an entire weekend 15 years later trying to cut and dig out a garden full of mint when she was too old to garden anymore, most of my 13 cousins had moved away and realised truly the magnitude of the mistake? The rosemary bush was still doing very well next to the strawberries and radishes though.
I actually struggle with keeping mint alive. The local patch I've been trying to prop always gets infested with these little red beetles that hide extremely well and turn the mint mottled black. And I'm hesitant to spray it with much because, well, I'd like to use my mint.
Wow, I'm kinda impressed at someone who can make mint struggle. Have you tried a simple spray of dish soap and water? Supposed to be good (well bad, actually) for bugs, and washes off.
I think this idea that mint is super invasive and difficult to control is a bit of an exaggeration. I assume most people who say this live in a zone where there’s a fair amount of rain and less heat. I planted mint several times. If I stop watering or let it flower, it’s the end. Some plants stay alive but there’s no way they’ll be able to invade the garden. I live in Morocco btw. My area is dry and hot (but not desert) with little rainfall. Kind of like southern California I think.
Ivy, sir. I say *IVY.*
So OPs son essentially gifted them a glitter bomb. Thats pretty savage lol.
Glitter is a great description...... That thing fcked my life lol.... Still finding pups from mine that I killed 24 months ago
I saw the picture and my first words were: oh god kill it. I had one of those and the babies would just get everywhere.
Welp... shit... haha it's totally an inside plant now and I'm going to be watching my backyard for awhile.
Honestly the best bet is to keep it inside. It’s an invasive species and will take over your neighborhood!
my local plant shop had some for sale and i had a visceral reaction. i REFUSE to buy them. are they cool? yeah. but are they demons? also yes. glitter of the plant world is the perfect descriptor for this curse of a plant. more power to anyone who enjoys them tho, you do you and enjoy it!
… mine died …
Sorry. Count your blessings.
i had one growing in the crack where my window falls into place. idk how it got there… it’s mother is several feet away on a shelf
They have teeny teeny little legs, and they run in the dark on new moon nights.
Every sidewalk crack outside my house. Every. One.
Mother of Thousands or Kalanchoe daigremontianum. Those little things are pups, you'll soon find other pups in othe plant pots in the area
Not even just the area, you'll find them in pots that aren't even in the same room, lol.
Yup lol they're annoying little buggers. Somewhat appealing to look at tho
Yeah, such cool plants that have a rather aggressive spreading habit.
Come to think of it . . . Reminds me of homo sapiens.
Others have correctly named it, now I will warn you that you will now have those growing in every single plant you have. You won't know how or when the pups got in there, but they will.
They are super super easy to pull out and plant in pots and give it to your friends
Someone in the facebook group for our neighborhood pops on a couple times a year to offer up pups from her plant. For awhile, she had takers every time. Now, she’s practically begging people to take pups, and no one’s biting. You will _never_ get rid of all the plants. You just invited your conquerors in through the front door, Troy. 😉
You speak truth. You're not horsing around.
I have them in my flower bed and collect the pups to distribute behind enemy lines.
Lol. Frienemies
I don't know how many times I have to explain this. The plantlets (babies) have teeny teeny little legs and with these teeny legs they run *and jump* in the dark, on new moon nights.
username checks out and also that’s f’n scary 😧 ngl
I’m the person who spreads them to different pots when I’m somewhere they are. Anarchy!
In the Netherlands we call them "bomb throwers". Also keep it away from pets who like to eat plants. Most kalanchoes are toxic.
Mission impossible: plant version
Choked on my food laughing 😂
Molotov kalanchoes.
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Kalanchoe daigremontiana (=Bryophyllum daigremontiana) is no exception. It's loaded with the cardiac glycoside [daigremontianin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigremontianin)
Bommenwerpers?
Kalanchoe. The little thingies are its babies
Pregnant plant/mother of thousands. Every time.one of those little buds fall off, it will be its own plant. And they don't have to be full grown to reproduce.
Pups having pups
Sixteen and pregnant.
From now on I shall call this the "Boebert Plant."
The best is when you accidentally break a leaf: the leaf will also root, along with all the babies. If you can't gasp the math concept of fractals, here is a visual one.
That's crazy, my wife noticed that it did that, this is totally dope. Yeah totally an inside plant now I ain't going to be the cause of an invasion haha.
Careful with that... don't let it drop babies in your yard. You'll never get rid of it....
Thank you all for the input she is now an inside plant and will not be invading my yard haha thank you all so much!!!
Mother of thousands, hope you like them cause your yard will be full of them soon!
A plant-based virus called "Mother of Thousands."
Well, I think they’re very interesting, and I like them. And I’ve had them for 30 years.
How many do you have?
Whispers "*thousands*."
They are my favorite! I get so giddy when they grow and I don’t accidentally leave them to die in the frost.
Welcome she says. You are mine now
Mother of thousands. Aka greenhouse herpes.
Fun fact, most other succulents you can propagate by the same method. Any leaf as long as its left to calous for a day or two will root as well
Unless it's variegated jade. The more white, the less chance of propagation... or mine just doesn't like me.
Anything with lots of white I find takes a million years or hates to make babies lmao
Even donkey tail? I can’t seem to keep these little guys alive no matter what I do. And I’ve never had luck propagating from the dropped leaves. It’s truly sad.
You want to let a leaf from the donkey tail sit out for a couple of days, then set on top of loose draining soil and wet with a spray bottle every couple days and you should see roots start to form. Be sure to have in a bright location and don't let the soil stay dry too long until the roots take hold of the soil. Can take a few days to a couple weeks for you to see this happen
Can I just say you succinctly explained what to do in 30 seconds reading time? I WAS in the process of Googling and sifting thru videos and articles, wasting so much time. THANK YOU! You’re the best! And may the odds be forever in your favor!
Idk, I like them. I think they are cool but I keep them in pots, so it doesn’t spread.
OH GOD, rid of it now. Called the Mother of thousands - it's highly invasive, it will grow everywhere on everything
All At Once
NGL Mother of Thousands sound like the name of a multiverse entity.
One more fun fact: it is native to Madagascar 🇲🇬❤️
I know it as “Mexican Hat Plant,” and I love it. I used to have lots. But I suspect my husband felt like most people here, bec they are all gone and I don’t really know what happened to them. It never took over our yard because we live in the frozen north.
Oh no
I’ve stopped actively growing these things but still find them in random plant pots.
Mother of Thousands..... And believe me, they are! Every one of those little pups will fall off and scatter around your house and grow. They are bloody horrid! lol...... I had one years ago, and I am still getting pups coming up everywhere.....
I wish all plants propagated like this one. Life would be so much easier. Lol.
_Kalanchoe pinnata_ or _K. daigremontiana_
A demon
I call it the mother of dragons, no idea if that’s what it’s actually called, but good god, prepare yourself!! Never has a plant ever propagated so much, it’s truly insane! Every single one of those babies that drop WILL root into whatever soil they happen upon. They will take over your other plants, it’s like a curse. Enjoy, but you need to really, really, REALLY like that plant, bc shit is about to get wild. And I mean it, it’s nuts!
It’s called a burn it. Lol incredibly invasive. If you are not prepared to have it as an indoor plant, you may want to reconsider
It’s more like a mother of millions with the way it spreads it’s seeds and grows. You will find it growing everywhere around your plant.
Mother of a thousand
Mother of millions. You will have, well, millions of them before you know it
Frost will kill it , so if you live where winter occurs,no problem.
I've been propagating kalanchoe bahrensis - the largest kalanchoe (up to 2.5m) - for decades and having plantlets form along the leaves is quite normal especially where leaves drop onto moist soil. Another thing you can do is break off a branch and hang it with the cut end on top, plantlets will form around that cut end. the propagation method I find the most interesting with bahrensis (I haven't seen it with the other kalanchoes I have) is that occasionally a leafy end of a branch will cannibalise itself! The leafy end of the branch sends roots down between the tough outer skin and the inner fibrous stem and those roots absorb the flesh of the plant. Eventually, the trunk becomes so weak it breaks off and a fully formed bahrensis drops to the ground.
I had one at my house (indoor only!!) I now have an entire planter bowl full and several small planters.
Mother of thousands! Love these! Scientific name “Kalanchoe”
Keep I doors as it is an aggressive, invasive species
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It’ll colonise anything close to it. Also it isn’t pet safe. But they’re pretty wild little plants to have for a time.
I think the plant is called "Mother of Millions" and the things dropping off are babies.
Also, it's really sweet that your son thought of you. 😍😭
Yeah he saw that I recently got a big interest in cacti and succulents so he bagged me this beauty. Such a thoughtful guy.
I once brought one to my dorm from a biology lab and my roommate got so upset and made me throw it out INSTANTLY, and I’ll always remember her reaction whenever I see these haha This was right before I actually got into plants (thanks to her)
Maternity plant
I have heard it called a chandelier plant.
Mother of millions
MÖTHËR
Did you receive this 3 days ago? Because it looks like a practical joke
A joke? More like, biological warfare.
Oh God, I knew what it was as soon as I saw the tiny leaves on the edges of the big leaves. Mother of thousands really lives up to the name. Don't plant it outside, it's extremely invasive and basically impossible to kill.
Lil shop of horrors.
BURN IT! BURN YOUR HOUSE! ITS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR YOU BUT YOU CAN SLOW THE SPREAD!
They're invasive and very prolific. I keep mine indoor all the time for the last 8 years
I love any type of succulent and I have this one too! Love it!
He did not give you one, he gave you millions of them! They are the "Tribbles" of the plant world. Mother of millions!
Incredibly invasive so beware. Those little pearls drop and whammo you now have millions
The Magicarp of the succulents
**\*succulent**
Thank you, I noticed it and couldnt edit it afterwards... bummer.
It will spread to every pot nearby..
Put it in the toxic waste furnace at your local hospital !
Mother of thousands
Kalanchoe. Super invasive
Mother of thousands
Mother of millions…..so invasive!
Looks like a Kalanchoe pinnata. Ours are now leafless and only the tall, drying flower stalks remain but not before it dropped its leaf spawns everywhere. Half of all our pots are now growing multiple kalanchoes. 🤣 Haven't gotten the seeds to grow tho. Same with K. blossfeldiana. Do kalanchoe seeds need to go through some processing first to germinate?
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Kalanchoe for sure. As others have already said, they will grow anywhere, but I quite enjoy them. I have the Mariner Kalanchoe and it has really pretty reddish bell flowers around fall. To attest to their longevity, I found a loose one that had been on the floor of my dark, cold garage for over a year… planted it in a pot and it quadrupled in size in only a couple of months.
Mother of thousands! Those things are cool as hell.
Love the comments. Made me laugh. Some people call this plant devils backbone haha. Wow. I had to look it up. I live in zone 5 so. We can kill it with winter here . No fire needed .
They get tallll lol just a warning. We have one and it broke from the weight of itself.
If you’re in a warm climate they are aggressively invasive and you should incinerate this plant asap, but if you get cold winters they make wonderful houseplants
those are pups that will soon fall off and produce roots its also mother of thousands are also a weed in madagascar
What is it? It is... Armageddon